Connecticut western news., 1887-05-11
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.


 from Many Redundant Columns. The recent Southwestern earthquakes ex- tended over a section 1, ,0OO miles wide.
 All cattlemen and other whites have been ordered off the Cheyenne reservation.
 Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, has pardoned the Hon. John and the Hon. Charles Kelly, who were under twenty years sentence for murder.
 $. NJ. Murdough, manager of the Boston oyse CT house in Chicago, went to the top of the building, shot himself dead and his body fell to the street.
 The officers of the Michigan cooperative insurance companies are at Lansing fighting restrictive insurance legislation. They have engaged ex-Gov. Blair as counsel.
 Miss Cleveland will be associated in Sep- tember with a New York ladies' school, to de- liver lectures Ion American history and give up all newspaper and magazine work.
 Remarkable earthquake phenomena are re- ported from the Rocky Mountains. At Ben- son, Ariz, volcanic eruptions of lava could be seen issuing from Whetstone mountain. The highest cliff of the Chivato mountain, in Mex ico, and towering peak near Tucson, Arizona, were overturned by shocks.
 pr. w. J. Whelan, of Youngstown, O., be- gan damage suit against the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad and the Youngs- town Street Railway for $1OO,O00 for injuries
  Doctor lowered between life and death several weeks, and will be cripple for life.
 At Carthage, Mo-, Mrs. William Corbett and her little brother, while walking on railroad trestle, were overtaken by train. She threw the boy off the trestle and was struck by the train herself and killed. The boy was fatally injured. Philip Best's hop house at Milwaukee was damaged by fire to the extent of $25, ,OO0. Tho water rose again at Bangor and no trains were run on the Maine Central John O'Hara fell from train into washout and was drowned.
 Leonard Kable. an 1S-year-old employee of the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com pany, at York, Pa., committed suicide because of a love affair.
 At tho anti-coercion meeting at Atlanta, addresses were made by Senators Colquitt ana Brown, Henry w. Grady, and others Strong resolutions were adopted.
 Alfred Arnold was killed by lightning at Marysville, Mich., and the hotel at Whitman Lake was demolished and Lena Schlimmer fa- tally injured by the same agency.
 Albert Dennis of Nicholasville, Ky. threw stone at an enemy on passing train, and the passenger drew his revolver and fired. Dennis was carried to Franklin, Tenn, where he died.
 Samuel Huland, the s15,OOO defaulting County Treasurer at Delphi, Ind, has been arrested.
 The Old Colony Company intend to build companion boat to the Pilgrim, to be called the Puritan.
 The centennial of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Maryland will be celebrated May 10, II and 12. Every Grand Lodge in America wi send representatives, and number of high degree Masons from Europe will be pres ent. The Prince of Wales has acknowledged his invitation.
 The dead bodies of three infants were found wrapped in papers in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
 Thomas Northrup, a respected citizen of Havcrhill, Ohio was murdered by four men named Mccoy, who bear hard name.
 The Indians in the vicinity of Yuma, Ariz, are suffering from an epidemic of measles, which had proved fatal in 60 cases up to date.
 -BachaHt's warehouse the Presbyterian and Lutheran churches and ten dwellin"s in Kan kakee, H., were burned. Loss, $50,0O0. The Boston Globe has occupied it's new eight-story brown stone building.
 The Ideal Opera Company broke up in a row at Erie, Pa., and the members started by different trains for New York.
 William Wheeler, night clerk of the Col burn House, at Detroit, has stolen $10O, with which to go to California, where he has fallen heir to half of 8 $30OOO0 estate.
 The police of East St. Louis had battle with body of armed tramps, who were en. camped in the woods near the town. One of the tramps was fatally wounded. The others fed and joined larger camp outside of town, where they are we'll armed and defy the au- thorities
 A Northern Pacific passenger train was wrecked near Sterling, Dak, by expanding of the rails by the intense heat. ". O. B. Reed, of Faribault Minn, was killed, superinten- dent Scobel and Miss Gertrude Hill, of Boze- man, Mont, fatally injured, and twenty y-fve | others more or less hurt.
 The Missouri Pacific car and machine shop: have been located at Atchison. | Thirteen more indictments have been found | in St. Louis against men for committing | frauds in the election last fall.
 The dead bodies of three negros named | Sylvester brothers, were found hanging to tree on the roadside near Proctor, W. Va. recently, bearing the placard: "Nigge1 | thieverS must be broken up." Farmers il that neighborhood have suffered heavy lossc by robbery.
 the Woman's Relief Corps of Salt Lake City | She was presented with gold badge of tn order set with diamonds.
 Gen. Nagayama and staff of the Japanes' army are in New York.
 -Hailstones big as goose eggs fell in St Paul. Minn.
 A party of New Orleans jewellers, went t, I groom stabbed the leader with sabre ant the man will die.
 New York printers will wait till after thei International Convention ill June before ask ing for the reduction of Q weeks work to 5 hours.
 "A tornado last night unroofed severa buildings at Farmville, Va., and blew down { bridge spanning the Appomattox River. | A gigantic scheme by which the entire liver coal industry from the Monongahea Val | 'ey to New Orleans will be controlled by one | powerful syndicate, is being considered by all he operators between these points.
 A boom in the ironands has been caused oy the discovery of a rich vein of hard ore near Negaunee, Mich. Arrangements are being made to equip the mine immediately. It is considered the most valuable discovery made n that district for many years.
 Early in the morning Mrs. Alice Fowler widow with six children, living in the out skirts of Fort Scott, Kan, was awakened by burly negro, who demanded money. She gav him all she had, S7.50, and then he choked he into insensibility and outraged her. Later il the day "Blue Jay" Williams was brought be fore Mrs. Fowler, and she identified him as he assailant. He escaped from his custodians however, and barricaGed himself in house il the vicinity. He was heavily armed and defet the officers. No one ventured to capture him and during the night he escaped. He will b. lynched if caught. His victim is in preca rious condition.
 Six Jail Prisoners Escape.
 George A. Barton, who was serving a tern in the Worcester, Mass, jail, for polygamy had been trusted to work in the corridors an( cells, and had a cell key during the day. H,